Afroxander
@afroxander.bsky.social
Weekend Editor at L.A. Taco. Arts, Culture, Entertainment, History, Politics, Sports in English/Español. CSUSB / SDSU. Chicano Jeff Goldblum. Views my own & etc.
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“It was a real magical time in the late ‘80s, early ‘90s, where he had all these different types of bands and they all supported each other and there was actual venues to go to,” says Zach Cordner.
The full story: lataco.com/punk-hardcor...
By @afroxander.bsky.social
The full story: lataco.com/punk-hardcor...
By @afroxander.bsky.social
Long live Riverside!
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Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
The reason that we reporters are focused so intensely on the L'affair Nuzzi is that, as Olivia notes, it is a basically apocalyptic scandal in the most literal sense of that term: a dropping of masks. It's acting as confirmation of every hideous story anybody's ever told about political journalists
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Also these are people at the heights of the industry, and both Nuzzi and Lizza were almost instantly rehabilitated by top media companies after a first round of scandals that should have made them radioactive. Now lo and behold, much bigger shoes to drop, and we probably haven't seen the last of it.
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It was always a transnational fascist movement
At a Madrid congress packed with far-right Catholics, Heritage president Kevin Roberts pitched Project 2025 as a blueprint for a new Christian order. His Opus Dei-tinged praise for “young men” leading a revival shows the U.S. culture war isn’t staying in America — it’s spreading.
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Heritage’s European Offensive: Exporting America’s Christian Nationalist Project
Heritage president Kevin Roberts took his Project 2025 message to Madrid, joining a lineup of anti-LGBTQ and anti-woman figures from CitizenGO, Vox, ADF International, and beyond. He made no mention o...
globalextremism.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It was always a transnational fascist movement
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Cover Reveal!
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Cover Reveal!
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
The Rock Poontang pie - Smackdown 1999
YouTube video by Michael
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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If this is what it looks like, this is a live third amendment issue. The third amendment has always been my favorite amendment, but largely because it never came up.
Idk if I'm right. Here's what I think I'm seeing:
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
Police are using her lawn as a staging area. She wants them off. The say she's obstructing them and they'll arrest her. She keeps repeating that it's her property and she won't let them on it without a warrant.
They stay!
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If this is what it looks like, this is a live third amendment issue. The third amendment has always been my favorite amendment, but largely because it never came up.
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My latest for Forbes.com:
After Visiting White House, Ronaldo Gets Suspension Cut By FIFA
Hmmm.
tinyurl.com/bdfnd4mj
After Visiting White House, Ronaldo Gets Suspension Cut By FIFA
Hmmm.
tinyurl.com/bdfnd4mj
Forbes
Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.
Forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My latest for Forbes.com:
After Visiting White House, Ronaldo Gets Suspension Cut By FIFA
Hmmm.
tinyurl.com/bdfnd4mj
After Visiting White House, Ronaldo Gets Suspension Cut By FIFA
Hmmm.
tinyurl.com/bdfnd4mj
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For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
Two Months After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Comments, Ghost Of Yotei Dev Blames Harassment Campaign, Not ‘Bad Joke’
"I really don’t want this to happen to anyone else, because I feel like with the state of everything, it will absolutely happen to other people," says Drew Harrison
aftermath.site
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For @aftermath.site, I spoke to @imodrew.bsky.social, the Sucker Punch dev fired after making a Charlie Kirk joke.
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
She paints a picture of an industry that all too often ignores bad actors until those bad actors threaten them financially.
aftermath.site/sucker-punch...
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Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![A 5-question exchange in which Greg Bovino is asked if he sees an older gentleman, "expressing his disagreement with [Bovino's] presence in Chicago [who] doesn't like the fact that you are instructing him to move down, right?"
Bovino responds, no, "That individual is failing to follow instructions to vacate the area."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibxlni2hq5i7mycqssosneb3ahdrtvw3ullnbi6y66dtomevhyhh4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Badass cover!!!
I was lucky enough to do a cover for @henrybarajas.bsky.social 's DEATH TO PACHUCO #5 (avial to order now). The setting for this story is deeply personal to me - My grandparents (pictured here) were in Los Angeles during this time and (tho not Pachucos, per se) could've been targets of aggression
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Badass cover!!!
*stares in Jorge Ibargüengoitia*
My one Kennedy conspiracy theory: There was a vast CIA-mob-GOP-Cuban exiles-oil companies-etc plot to off JFK but before anything could happen a rando named Oswald shot him independently. Plotters shrugged and moved on. Because reality is that dumb and random.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
*stares in Jorge Ibargüengoitia*
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Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing
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Long live the USL Championship championship
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Long live the USL Championship championship
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC lift their first USL Championship after winning the PK battle against FC Tulsa…and a Tulsa player didn’t look too happy about that celebration! 👀
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC lift their first USL Championship after winning the PK battle against FC Tulsa…and a Tulsa player didn’t look too happy about that celebration! 👀
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Zohran Rizzdani.
Trump on meeting Zohran Mamdani: “It was a great honor.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Zohran Rizzdani.
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[there's no way he can blame this on democrats. even he's not that good.]
Donald Trump is our nation's biggest mark but Dem leadership is so inept and fundamentally unpersuasive that they've lost a charisma contest to Steven Miller for ten years
Donald Trump is our nation's biggest mark but Dem leadership is so inept and fundamentally unpersuasive that they've lost a charisma contest to Steven Miller for ten years
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
[there's no way he can blame this on democrats. even he's not that good.]
Donald Trump is our nation's biggest mark but Dem leadership is so inept and fundamentally unpersuasive that they've lost a charisma contest to Steven Miller for ten years
Donald Trump is our nation's biggest mark but Dem leadership is so inept and fundamentally unpersuasive that they've lost a charisma contest to Steven Miller for ten years
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
This timeline, man…
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This timeline, man…
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#OtD 21 Nov 1922 Mexican anarchist communist of Zapotec descent, Ricardo Flores Magón, died after months of illness and neglect in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas. He was one of the major thinkers and activists of the Mexican revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9420...
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#OtD 21 Nov 1922 Mexican anarchist communist of Zapotec descent, Ricardo Flores Magón, died after months of illness and neglect in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas. He was one of the major thinkers and activists of the Mexican revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9420...
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I should add: criticism of capitalism *in general* is also hardly unusual among American Christians and Jews, as well as American Muslims.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
Rep. Salazar, apparently referring to socialism, says Dems have been “infiltrated by an ideology that is completely foreign to the American values — the Judeo-Christian values.”
Religion note: Myriad debates around it aside, there's a long history of U.S. Christian and Jewish support for socialism.
Religion note: Myriad debates around it aside, there's a long history of U.S. Christian and Jewish support for socialism.
Rep. Maria Salazar: "The GOP is also a morally sound party"
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I should add: criticism of capitalism *in general* is also hardly unusual among American Christians and Jews, as well as American Muslims.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
Malcolm X once speculated that capitalism would ultimately fall, comparing the system to a blood-sucking vulture.
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There's a through-line between suppressing grad students unionizing and outsourcing knowledge creation to a malevolent robot trained on theft, racism, and disregard for knowledge creation
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There's a through-line between suppressing grad students unionizing and outsourcing knowledge creation to a malevolent robot trained on theft, racism, and disregard for knowledge creation
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Linking back to this article because lol Gil Mora scored a panenka tonight that put Xolos up 2-1 in a Liga MX playoff game
"This kid could definitely be a Champions League-level player in the future"
Meet 16-year-old Mexican wonderkid Gilberto Mora, one of the most exciting young players in world soccer and a possible savior for El Tri at the World Cup.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
Meet 16-year-old Mexican wonderkid Gilberto Mora, one of the most exciting young players in world soccer and a possible savior for El Tri at the World Cup.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
Introducing Gilberto Mora, 16, Mexico's great hope for the 2026 World Cup
Gilberto Mora is one of the most exciting talents that Mexico has produced in the last few years, as the teenager will now look to live up to that hype at the World Cup.
www.espn.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Linking back to this article because lol Gil Mora scored a panenka tonight that put Xolos up 2-1 in a Liga MX playoff game
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.